together every element of the base he can to keep himself viable in this presidential election. can he turn it around in 90 days? going to be very tough. your earlier segment on the tax returns, i mean, you take his tax returns, you take his tax plan. you know, he s going to maybe get a bounce out of the convention, although that s not assured. it s not going to deal with his underlying problems. right now, he looks like a guy who is not only sort of out of touch with people, but in many ways out of his depth. he can t handle this process. bob shrum, always great to have you on the ed show. thanks so much. thanks, ed. the romney campaign is misleading folks about early voting. congresswoman betty sutton weighs in next from ohio. and president obama is attacking mitt romney s backwards tax plan. meanwhile, mitt is fighting back with baloney? our panel will weigh in on the tax debates. stay tuned, we re coming right back. you do
the country knows she wasn t qualified, and, in fact, she didn t run in 2012 for one reason. she couldn t have won the republican nomination for president. even in that narrow party she s not got majority support, but she s got a very loyal, devoted following. if you diss her, they re going to diss you. and if palin does get a substantial role at the convention, gets a lot of buzz with it, obviously, what kind of position does that put mitt romney in? because she s not going to go in there lighthearted with any kind of moderate views. i mean, she is going to be there to bend the party even further to the right, and that s exactly where mitt romney doesn t want to be. well, look, if she gets a substantial role, and i can t believe she will, you run the danger that we saw with pat buchanan in 1992. he spoke on the same night as ronald reagan at the 92 republican convention. he gave a sulfurous, angry hateful speech.
romney says people won t have to work under a new federal policy. the government will just send a check to them. nearly every major news organization is now reporting that romney s new ad is simply not true. in fact, romney has actually been pushing for this exact policy change. he and several other republican governors asked the federal government for more flexible, flexible welfare rules back in 2005. the obama administration is now giving governors what they ask for, more power and more flexibility in granting assistance. greg sergeant of the washington post talked to two republican governors taking advantage of president obama s policy change. the governors of both utah and nevada refuse to comment on romney s new ad, but both confirm the new policy will not weaken work requirements. in other words, romney s ad is a blatant lie. but romney is not backing down. he claims bill clinton is on his side. i think president clinton
how carefully romney paid attention to legal tax avoidance and may have for all we know, engaged in some kind of illegal or questionable tax avoidance, but it is knot credible for him to say, gee, i don t know, especially when he said, i ll go check to abc and now he hasn t done it. you know, we show the vulture chart here on the ed show from time to time about where the income is going over the past 30 years in the country. eugene, could it be possible that mitt romney is the perfect candidate for the democrats at a time when there s a conversation about tax fairness going on and this is a huge uh-oh moment for the republicans? well, i think, look, the democrats could do worse, frankly, than having mitt romney to run against at this moment. i mean, it is totally not credible that he doesn t know what his tax rate was. that makes no sense. and i just don t think this is going away. it s ridiculous to say, oh, you poor american people, you
most investment income as wage earners do on their income. until mitt romney understands the fundamental idea of tax fairness, the romney hood nickname works pretty well at this point in time in the campaign. get your cell phones out. tonight s question, do you think people as rich as mitt romney will ever pay their fair share of taxes? text a for yes, tt b for no to 622639. you can leave a comment at our blog at ed.msnbc.com. i m joined by eugene robin n robinson, analyst and associate editor and pulitzer prize winning columnist for the washington post, and david k. johnson, author of the book free lunch. good to have you with us. this is the discussion that simply will not go away. i find it entertaining. i would like to know how romney is going to get out of this mess. david, how likely is it that